IAMSOUND Records was founded in 2006 by Niki Roberton as a creative brand and entity based in music, flexible enough to keep pace with the changing industry. Building the label as a source and destination to discovering new music, IAMSOUND has developed into a place where people will turn to look for cutting-edge sounds, whether it is through the artists they release, events they put on, or their many other ventures.

Formerly a Partizan video director, Roberton opted to discover and develop new talent rather than shoot their videos and now runs the label day-to-day with Paul Tao (of AbsolutePunk.net) . In 2010, Anh Do joined the team to help run the company’s management and events departments with a background in marketing and PR, as well as years curating the gallery and directing music and cultural programming at Los Angeles’ Space 15 Twenty arts and commerce space.

October is the month of Kate Boy over at the IAMSOUND headquarters, as they finally head back to the States for a tour in preparation for their debut album. The North American tour started yesterday in Mexico at Corona Capital, our favorite music festival down south, and hits the US tomorrowwith their first American show being in Los Angeles at the Roxy Theatre. After that:

Riding high on the wave of their pastel doom, LA industrial pop duo IO ECHO are gearing up for their fifth tour of 2013, now alongside fellow Angelenos and longtime comrades Haim. The pair of Leopold Ross and Ioanna Gika,

After releasing two albums in 2012, Norway’s Hans-Peter Lindstrøm has been keeping a little quiet . . . drinking espresso, riding his bike all over Oslo, and, of course, working on new material and remixes a plenty

IO ECHO are a band influenced by everything from goth to grunge pop, but on their debut album they’ve also infused some Asian sounds which is being called “new Orientalism”. The first track “Shanghai Girls” has all of these elements, but also is very evocative of Siouxsie and the Banshees’

n anticipation of his debut full-length album, Lesser Evil, Doldrums has announced a slew of North American tour dates this spring, featuring shows with Crystal Castles and a stop at next month’s SXSW in Austin. Doldrums will also be taking out Arbutus labelmates Blue Hawaii and Sean Nicolas Savage on his Reality Lite Tour

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